Laundry pin



27, 1926. 1,582,175 A GUDMUNDSEN ET AL LAUNDRY PIN Filed April 21. 1924 INVENTORS J 7%.JiMu

ATTORNEY Patented Apr. 27, 1926. I Y

UNITED srarss rarest-crates.

AUSTIN GUDMUNDSEN AND FRANK E. DOLE, OF SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH.

LAUNDRY rm.

. Application filed April 21, 1924. Serial No. 707,783.

To al 'w/iom it may concern: s by bending other portions of said plate A to Be it known that we, AUSTIN GUDMUND- form the sides and ends, as shown at G, snN and FRANK E. Dom, citizens of the and said case Gr is extended from the body United States, residing at Salt Lake- City, of said plate A as an integral wing portion in the county of Salt Lake and State of to allow the hook point to be engagedwhen 60 Utah, have invented certain new and useful the clothing is suspended thereon.

Improvements in Laundry Pins, of which Thehook portion of my inventionis a flat the following is a specification. thin metal shank F in whichan elongated Our invention relates to sorting devices slot 1 is provided and which opens to the used in laundry work and has for its object edge and near one end oi the said shank. A .65

to provide a new, economical and convencatch 2 is formed on the free end portion of icntly operated pin which is detachably has said shank F which engages in the respective tene d in articles of clothing for marking recesses D and E as said shank is operated. said articles while theyare being washed in The other end portion of said shank F is laundries. formed into a hook H, the end of which is m A further object is to provide'a locking tapered and sharpened to form a point which.

laundry pin from which articles may be engages in said case G when the clothing is suspended, and from which said articles may to be held on the hook. The said hook H is be detached by a simple lateral 'movement iormed or bent with a short curve 3 nearest f ith th articles or the pins while the the shank F with the other portions having 75 articles or pins are bunched, and to facilitate less curvature, as at A, in Order that the th a s bli f th i i th i a tendency oit'clothing suspended from said These objects we accomplish with the de ook Wil be to S ide oward the shank F vice illustrated in the accompanying drawrather than off of the hook. A guard plate I ings in which similar letters of reference in- K, having a laterally projecting rib 5, is se- 80 dicate like parts throughout the several cured at one end adjacent each of the rods R,

views, and as described in the specification and Parallel thereto forming a part of this application and point- The p a i n Of 0111 device is as foled out in the appended claims. lOWS r I th d i i hi h We h v how The hook portion of the device is inde- 86 the best mode of applying the invention to P -l3 COHSt'IUCtQd, 51S Shown in gu practical and beneficial use Fi ur 1 i a, 5, and 1ts shank portion F is slipped into View in perspective of one of the pins on a he g i e gase C by a Slight flexing of the u ortin d, ith rti l of lothi catch port1on2; the said shank is made of as Suspended f th h k o ti Figur 2 spring metal to allow the bending required. 90 is an elevation of the device, with the hook. The flattenedshape given to the shank F l d, Fi 3 i an l ti f th 1 and guide case C will position the point of vice showing the reverse side from that the'hook in alinement with the case G, and shown in Figure l and with the hook open. When the catch 2 is in the recess E the hook 40 Fig 4 i a l i h i t r nd point will be spaced far enough from the 95 remote from the hook. Figure 5 is detail said case G to allow articles of clothing to in plan of the hook portion of the device. he impaled on or engaged with said hook H.

The device consists of a thin metal plate The shank F, with its integral hook H, is A having an opening B medially therein then moved longitudinally toward the said which is shaped to conform with the shape plate and the catch 2 engaged in the recess 1 of the supporting rod R on which the pin D, and. when so engaged the point of the and clothing thereon are suspended. A hook will he engaged in the ase G and the guide case C is provided by bending por clothing held. on the hook. After the cloth tions of said plate A to form a rectangular ing has been launderedthe devices are suscase. The sides of said guide case are spaced pended from the supporting rod R by slip- 10 apart to allow the fiat end portion of the ping the device over the free end of said rod hook to slide freely in said case. In the F, with the said rod through the opening outer edge of'said guide case C two recesses B. lVhen all of the articles of one bunch D and E are out. On the opposite edge of of laundry are thus suspended on one red,

said plate A a hook point case is provided the devices will be bunched and may be 0 grasped With one hand by the operator While the bunch of laundered clothing; is held with the other hand. Then, by a lateral movement of the clothing, each of the devices will be partially rotated on the rod R, and the catches 2 will all be brought into contact with the rib 5 on the guard plate K, where by the catches 2 will be released and pushed from the recesses D, and the shanks F, with their hooks H, will he slid downwardly and the clothing released from the hooks, and the catches 2 will engage in the recesses E. The pins are then open and read tor placing in their respective cases.

Having thus described our invention we desire to secure by Letters Patent and Clr1l1112 1. A laundry pin comprising a plate portion with a hole centrally therein and adapted to be placed on a supporting rod; a guide 5-21.56 on one edge of said plate havi two spaced apart recesses opening to its interior: a hook having a slotted shank adapted to slide longitudinally in said guide case; a catch formed on one leg of the slotted portion of said shank; a hook point case formed by other portions of said plate and adapted to receive the point of said hook.

A laundry pin comprising a plate hav ing an opening centrally therein; a guide case near one edge of said plate and having recesses opening to its interior; a hook point case on the opposite edge; a hook having a shank longitudinally movable in said guide case and the point of the hook adapted to engage in the point case; and a portion of: said shank adapted to engage in either o't said recesses.

3. In a laundry pin comprising a plate having an opening centrally therein: a guide case integrally formed thereon and having a recess opening to its interior, and said guide case having spaced apart slots on its outer side; a hook member having a shank portion longitudinally movable in said guide case and adapted to engage in said spaced apart slots; and another portion of said hook member formed into a pointed hook.

In testin'iony vvhereot we have dlllfletl our signatures.

rrUSTlN GUDMUN JS EN. FRANK DOLE. 

